71 Quotes by Eddie Huang

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.